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someplace where it's probably not so warm and i'm using that world mildly. 100 in fairfield, 102 antioch, 103 pleasanton, mid-90s in benicia, 97 in san jose. temperatures warmer than yesterday. in the coastline though in the same ballpark. 70s half moon bay, 90s kentfield, 98 santa rosa, 99 sonoma. so north and east bay location, that's where all the heat is going to be today. anne makovec is already there in walnut creek. it is not so hot right now, what is it like, anne. >> reporter: that's right, it is just below 60 degrees right now. it's especially pleasant to be the morning reporter because everybody working the later shift are going to be roasting. according to your forecast it will be 102 here in walnut creek today a difference of about 40 degrees from what it is right now. that heat wave will present two issues. it's a "spare the air." number 2, the possibility of power outages. so many people are running their air-conditioning, it can lead to system overload and that's what happened in castro valley this weekend. more than 30,000 pg&e cu

it's 4:59. thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. right now the bay area's first ever expressway lane is opening up to drivers. that means solo drivers can pay for the privilege of using what would otherwise be a carpool lang. jenelle wang is live over 680 in fremont. this has been in the works for a long, long time. >> yeah. and it's finally here. set to open in about 30 seconds from now officially. at 5 a.m. the bay area's first expressway lane. i'm along highway southbound 680. you can see the traffic going southbound right here. there will be three entry and three exit points. you're looking at one of the entry points here. washington boulevard exit. the new expressway lane replaces the carpool lane on southbound 680 between pleasanton and milpitas. a 14-mile stretch. it operates between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m. monday through friday. carpoolers will be able to use the lane for free as well as motorcycles, transit buses and highway vehicles with valid stickers but solo drivers can use the lane with fair fas trak pass. only three entry and exit points and ille

shooting each other. from both sides of the street. police think an ak-47 was used. 50 rounds were found on the ground. no arrests have been made. >> a developing story gas leak that has been affecting a roadway in orinda. pg&e has told us they have finally capped this. this is that broke what road. let's go live there with jackie sizzle on the scene. >> pg&e have shut off the gas but brought no way is shut down cruise over here this is where the contractor that was working over night punctured to the gas line that cause the issues out here. they're still working out here but they are saying they are 15-20 minutes away from reopening parts of downtown orinda this is the third time in two days we've seen a ghastly this one was a contractor using a back hoe ruptured the main. >> yesterday was caused by construction crews as well. the concern is how long it takes pg&e to stop it. this has taken hours to shut off the lake. >> pg&e is defense a lot of times they're not on the scene when that happens it takes awhile to get here and figure out what line has been ruptured and they go through the

announcer ] wells fargo. with you when it's time to save. ♪ human being. >> this woman used to work as a housekeeper for meg whitman and she came forward today to say she is here illegally and whitman knew it. >> cecilia vega is here with more on the possible political fallout for the republican candidate. cecilia? >> carolyn, this political fallout could be coming in the days ahead. she said she had no idea her housekeeper was undocumented until last year. but the housekeeper's lawyer said she knew and did nothing about it. >> we have to hold employers accountable for hiring only documented workers. >> that was yesterday. today she emerged, her former house ceerp of nine years and she -- housekeeper for nine years and in the country illegally. >> and i said, meg, please, can you help me? she was very upset and said, no! and you don't know me, and i have never seen you. >> with attorney gloria allred by her side, she said whitman treated her like garbage. >> in short, it was a nightmare. >> from the campaign trail in san jose, whitman fired back. she said she hired nicky through an

at the hair and nail salon where she used to work. investigators say efren valdemoro strangled cindy tran while she was in his car as he was being chased by police. cindy tran called her coworkers on her cell phone during the chase. they say they heard her begging for her life. >>> police are trying to trackdown two men suspected of kidnapping and killing an east palo alto man. jade hernandez joins us from the alameda county sheriff's office with more. >> reporter: good morning. the two men were last seen in sacramento and oakland. that is why we are live at the alameda county sheriff's office. the sheriff's office is hoping to get the new information out this morning. the new information was released from the sheriff's office overnight. we are live in san meandro. these are the two men sheriff's officers are looking for this morning. they are both suspects in the kidnapping and death of an east palo alto. the sheriff's office has arrest warrants for manuel trujillo and big momma's and mom -- and muhammad kahn. police believe they are responsible for the death of frankie lopez. he was fo

teenager. today they sent a letter out to parents letting us know what happened. tonight a father tells us his anyone is in describable. family and friends of 17-year- old raymond justice gathered for a quiet vigil in front of his home. he raised raymond as a single father. after seeing combat in vietnam, he never thought he would experience the horror of trying to save his own son on the streets of oakland. >> this is blood right here. i said that with the police, give him mouth to mouth resuscitation and his last breath came and i knew he was dead. >> reporter: last night around 6:30 he told his neighbors raymond ran to his home after he was shot at a nearby bus station. there was an altercation before the shooting. >> she was working with him on some of his homework and he was on his way home from that. >> the principal from the high school told us raymond had been receiving tutoring at oakland high shortly before the shooting. he was a junior with a 3.3 grade point average and planned to attend college. >> it's tough. i mean, you know, he is a kid that had a bright future. >> reporter:

, the calendar says summer is over but mother nature seems to be ignoring it. our anne makovec joins us now from walnut creek to explain that pg&e is urging conservation this morning. good morning, anne. >> reporter: good morning. here in downtown walnut creek, it is hanging around the lower 60s. you can see from this live time and temperature behind me. it's going to get up to 102 here in walnut creek. that creates two issues. number one, it's a "spare the air" day and the possibility of power outages so many people are running their air- conditioning it could lead to overload. that's what happened in castro valley this weekend. more than 30,000 pg&e customers lost power for almost three hours on saturday night. pg&e says it was a heat-related equipment failure issue. the mere thought of not having ac can have us sweating. but this may make things easier on the power grid. shut your windows and keep blinds closed in the morning, right now, to keep cool air trapped in the home. try to remember to turn off lights and appliances either right now or before the sun comes up. do your best to use them

that would apply for the one set on wednesday. >> understate law the department of crepes said it would use a three-drug procedure in regulations they spent years creating. those regulations have force of law and so judge fogel is saying you can either have your rights unthe constitution protected and understate law protected but not both. it's completely unfair. >> reporter: the same judge, judge jeremy fogel, was the one who halted executions in california in 2006. it claimed procedures for the three drug cocktail aimed at killing the condemned was not clear, and the death chamber was too dimly lit to monitor the procedure. but the judge is now allowing the executions to proceed because of a supreme court ruling in 2008 which upheld lethal injections in the state of kentucky and because ohio and washington state have been using 1-drug executions for the past year with no reported problems. that even as fogel presides over a lawsuit challenging the same procedure. brown has filed an appeal with the ninth circuit court. what they plan to do if all stays of execution fail. craig devro, san q

it was not on a list they say the system is flawed. >> we don't know what the cause was but that will inform us on how to look at the segments and whether the process that we use is a good process are not. >> pg&e submitted last year for base-rate proceedings they said they had read this section to and half miles away from the blast site. c u p c is pleased that pg&e complied the agency says it's important to have the information this list changes from year to year yesterday's list is the most recent period the c p u also requested the list for the past few years they will decide if changes need to be made on how the pipelines are monitored. police are investigating the solo crash in san jose that killed and eight year-old appeared in happened near o'grady drive at 3:00 a.m. report showed the driver as san jose man lost control of the has to be crashing into a light pole and cause the vehicle to catch fire. an 18 year-old passenger pronounced dead at the scene the driver is expected to survive he was taken to hospital. will tran joins us on the phone with more. >> that drivers in big trouble he is an

.m.. as mike said, the first day of astronomical fall. thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. developing news in downtown orinda where commuters can expect a few delays maybe this morning as pg&e tries to cap a gas leak. a construction crew hit a gas main around 11:30 last night near camino pablo. about a dozen homes were evacuated but all residents have now been allowed to return to their homes. city officials say the leak is near the on-ramp to eastbound 24 but say a detour has been put in place. this is the third significant gas leak reported in the last 24 hours in the bay area. yesterday morning crews dealt with a gas leak on the cal state east bay campus in hayward and last night a small leak forced the closure of el camino real in millbrae for two hours. >> bulldozers head out to the san bruno neighborhood devastated by natural gas and fire. the goal is remove demolished homes. >> the cleanup crews will come in at 8:00 this morning to clear out this debris. they're expected to be here the next four to six weeks. the first job to remove close to two dozen charred ca

and a chance for some showers by the weekends we will get their into the weekend. let us take a look right now, i will see mind as storm is expected to pull into the area. even throughout the day we actually could see the showers will toward north and there's probably a chance to to get into our area through the north bay and it is sunday morning that record to see some sprinkles starting to play a bigger role in our forecast by 5:00 our worst expecting light showers all the way into san rafael. the golden gate bridge and as we head into 7:00 hour. really, most people will make up and feel the rain out there. but is expected to grow up rest of the morning and into the afternoon and insets day it is a better chance of picking up showers in the afternoon all the way to 5:00 bringing as raindrops into the forecast and even into the evening we could still be dealing with widespread rain. it is not by 9:00 or 10:00 that we will be seen that push on out and along the peninsula as well. right now are fog tracker is showing that the north bay along the peninsula and into the east bay and even pushing

us know what happened. tonight a father tells us his anyone is in describable. family and friends of 17-year- old raymond justice gathered for a quiet vigil in front of his home. he raised raymond as a single father. after seeing combat in vietnam, he never thought he would experience the horror of trying to save his own son on the streets of oakland. >> this is blood right here. i said that with the police, give him mouth to mouth resuscitation and his last breath came and i knew he was dead. >> reporter: last night around 6:30 he told his neighbors raymond ran to his home after he was shot at a nearby bus station. there was an altercation before the shooting. >> she was working with him on some of his homework and he was on his way home from that. >> the principal from the high school told us raymond had been receiving tutoring at oakland high shortly before the shooting. he was a junior with a 3.3 grade point average and planned to attend college. >> it's tough. i mean, you know, he is a kid that had a bright future. >> reporter: the students and staff at life academy have crea

with meg whitman for an subject. he joins us to tell us what whitman said. >> meg whitman denied it all, today, lies she said. >> the charges are not true. the charges are absolutely not true. >> reporter: she says you were abusive, pregnancy discrimination, humiliated her? >> it's a lie. absolutely a lie. she was a great employee, we had a great relationship, it's absolutely a lie. >> reporter: whitman was campaigning at cisco headquarters in san jose when her former housekeeper nicky diaz and celebrity attorney gloria al dread made her charges. suffice it to say not one reporter asked her any question about cisco, every question was about her housekeeper. >> we hired her through an agency that had a documented 1099, a california driver's license, she was documented to work in this country, we had no reason to suspect otherwise, not at all. >> reporter: the whitman campaign says consider the source, gloria allred. they say that allred is part of a "democratic party sleaze machine." they call allred a shameful manipulate tore known for high profile, sometimes unsubstantiated, claims. >>

the oil began to leak. the u.s. coast guard says it will resume its search later this morning for a woman that placed a may day call in the waters off the coast of tiburon. they conducted searches from the richmond san rafael bridge and to angel island but failed to locate the caller. officials also broadcast alerts to marine traffic in the area. >> it's now 5:05. investigators will resume their search for a fifth day this morning looking for a body that may have been dumbed at a pittsburgh landfill. they're focussed on a one-acre stretching hoping to find clues that led to the whereabouts of frederick salas. he may be the fifth victim in the string of murders all at the hands of valdemoro. police say so far the tedious search has yielded just one clue and it's not much. >> the only thing they have found is a piece of letterhead that had a hercules dress but it's not related to this case. >> investigators are searching in the right area where trash from hercules was dumped. possibly the same trash from the business park where valued marrow once worked and where the car he had was abandone

&e recommends shutting off lights and other appliances when not being used. resetting air-conditioner to 85 degrees when you're away from home and 75 when your home. cal fire is battling wildfires along the mexican border. it started on the machens mexican side of the border. cal fire has spent san when hundred fire fighters to fight that fire that straddles the border. two firefighters have been injured and a mexican fire truck has been damaged. the day go wildfire has been contained it broke a saturday burned 89 a. one firefighter is in critical but stable condition this morning. it briefly threatened homes yesterday and the town of the data. one out building and two cars were destroyed. a developing story the latest in san bruno gas line explosion new legislation aimed at improving natural gas pipes will be introduced today. they will be announcing legislation about 10:00 a.m. this of course as cleanup efforts continued. you can see how much they have to clean up. crews are removing debris and soils. they're trying to get clearance to rebuild. new for you this morning a judge could rule

on this thursday. thanks for joining us. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm eric thomas. the best known name in toddler toys is announcing a mastiff recall including everything from tricycles to high chairs. jenelle joins us with more. >> eric, if you have a child five years old, you probably have some fisher price product in your home. just the past hour the company announced this massive recall, 10 million products. the recall includes nearly 1 million fisher price high chairs with pegs on the back legs for tray storage. toddlers have cut themselves on the pegs. seven of them needed stitches. also recalled, 7 million tricycles including hot wheels, barbie free spirit and tough tyke. ten children have flipped and hurt themselves. >> things that protrude from a toy which children can fall and hurt themselves need to be removed from toys so that they don't pose a hazard. >> also recalled small inflatable balls found on play gyms and little people cars because the wheels can detack and pose a choking hazard. for those toys, they will need to be replaced. you can contact fisher price at 1-800-432-5427. kristen

but they have to pay a fee with a fastrak. carpools will still be able to use the lane without charge. that express lane will be between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at 10:00 this morning, politicians and transportation officials will have a kickoff celebration right there near the freeway. >>> it is 5:06. let's get another check of the weather and traffic. gianna, how's commute looking? >> the freeways are looking very good. very light on the roads. but the surface streets is where we are having a trouble spot this morning near golden gate accident at richardson and chestnut. sfpd and emergency crews are on scene. expect that intersection to be blocked for some time until it's cleared out of the road. give yourself extra time if you head through richardson near chest enough. elsewhere closures taking place. near the moscone center, this is for oracle open word. tonight at 8:00, howard street will be shut down between third and fourth streets. that will be in effect until friday the 24th. so definitely give yourself extra time through that area. rig

the hot weather is making them nervous. crag shows us what they're doing to stay ready. >> this vehicle normally sits here but with their red flag day will be out and about. two extra people manning the screw. >> when we go out on they event the patrol comes with us. >> patrol means extra firefighters to stations striptease sick leave by the eastern. did not have to be patrol like july 4th. but they are on call for morning until 10:00 p.m. in case something happens in these dry grassy hills considered more dangerous than they look. >> i think you guess around 3 ft. obviously now were up to it it is a lot taller. this is probably 5-6 ft. tall you can see we will have a problem if this gets going. this is a steep hill houses on top. to access those houses weekend driver injuns up there so that's why we have the staffing of our british patrol >> no hydrants to be found the hope is to save these homes in the late fire season. in san jose kron 4 news. >> a judge has blocked the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer jonathan blum shows us. >> federal judge has done a 180. he reversed h

to brown in the past. >> and we went to nicky deon's neighborhood this afternoon and a neighbor told us she's a trust wornly friend and a great neighbor but. >> she just didn't like the way she's being treated and very unhappy. there was the extent of it. she had to continue working because she had responsibilities. >> and as we're leaving the house she received a call from diaz legal team spresing her not to speak to the media. >> what sounds like a cliche is a dangerous rewralt for postal workers. tonight a letter carrier is recovering from bite wounds after being attacked by a dog during his morning deliveries on camden avenue in san jose. two good samaritans came to the rescue. david louie is on the story live tonight. he's okay right? >> that is tru. he's okay. this is a problem the service says is growing. here in the south bay dogs bite letter carriers about once per week. it happened about 3,000 times per year. on this street on this morning it happened again. >> i just heard screaming. and that was very like in pain screaming. i ran out of the front door. and there he was between t

this friday. the drugs they use in the execution process could very well save this his life for now. that's because it's one of three drugs, and that drug is set to expire this friday. and the drug maker says that if the execution does not happen by then, brown was convicted of raping and murdering a riverside grove 30 years ago. at seventh when chris and i will transmit kron4 news. after >> 3 people have been injured in nine people displaced after a fire broke out of a level 30 less side of the 200 block of madison avenue. firefighters were able to contain the fires really after it started. it was severely damaged, and then reach the two cars turning and then the driver error rate. the fire was set to of started behind a couch, it is under investigation right now. >> 7 05 ring and 90 days and to the new budget year, lawmakers and the governor finally closing in on a deal. they have worked until late last night of backend that today it , and tried to close the state's $19 million gap. there seems to compose before they can put it to avoid votes. the governor wants public pension reform in

their city uniforms for new attire. the morning news continues. >>> good morning. thank you for joining us this thursday september 2nd. i'm pam cook. [ audio problems ] >> i'm dave clark. let's check weather and traffic. here's steve. >>> all right, pam and dave, thank you very much. good morning. skies are clear. fog is pretty far out there. it's getting closer but not going to be a factor at least through the first part of today and temperatures will start to rock up. officially 68 in san francisco. 88 today. 90s down toward santa cruz. upper 80s, low to mid-90s and few upper 90s as you work your way inland. >>> steve, right now highway 4 is recovering after we had an earlier problem blocking the left lane for a bit westbound 4 at willow pass. the accident has been cleared. they've towed the cars away but traffic is still slow as you come up there. bay bridge toll plaza looks pretty good here westbound so far getting into san francisco. now back to the desk. >>> time now 6:01. we've got new information this morning about the possible motive in the killing spree that spans three bay area

the sense she was telling the truth? >> i don't. none of us will really know whether or not she knew. here is the rub. she needed to know. federal law required her to know. if you are governor you cannot have an excuse i didn't open my mail. >> what do you make of the timing of this revelation. >> we have election month not election day balance will be mailed next week. >> using mag what man is in trouble because of this? >> this might be some example of mismanagement but it is not a knockout blow. >> if jerry brown had hired an eagle will be illegal immigrant it would a bit less impact. >> shortly after the press conference jerry brown campaign reacted. a spokesman says " made with men had shown the world is not apply to her after more than a year of women demanding immigration policy that holds employers a pot countable wheeler accountability does not extend to or on actions. you can watch the news conference as well as the response we have both of those along with political analysis on our kroweb site. new poll numbers as well as the senate race. public policy the governor's race is vir

that is blocking the right-hand lane. the 7:01 a.m. let us get up on the forecast right now. maybe we have cooler temperatures on >> the >> yes, we're looking at a cool down and in fact the temperatures are knocking down, ec all these clause here, we're stuck in the clouds roll into the inland spots bringing the temperatures down to. there are no more triple digits and it is starting to cool off and we're going to continue with a cooling trend throughout the rest of the workweek. here's a look out side read on how much of the temperatures that are expected to drop by 72 degrees cooler in san francisco in the same luster san rafael is clinton and about 12 degrees cooler. looking at about 12 and wrote redwood city. ms. cohen san francisco by 60 degrees and 56 degrees and oakland, it is one of the upper 60s in monday and into san roseanne as we work our way into the afternoon we should be getting up into the low 90s in some of these north base paths to santa rosa, of vallejo are getting into the upper 80s. it is good to be 86 in redwood city, 85 and the word and some of those twin locations like the

filed claims for pg&e gift cards worth $2,000. police say he obtained one using his real name and another using an alias. he also got 11 hotel stays and a rental car. >> this morning the oakland police union is going public about its disagreement with the city about rehiring some of the 80 officers laid off in july. the oakland tribune reports more than 14 officers have retired or quit the police force since july. the department now has 682 officers. that's the fewest in 16 years. the police union says the city's budget has money for 696 officers but officials have refused to let the department hire anyone. the city administrator says it doesn't make sense to bring back the officers for a few months when it's likely they'll be laid off again on january 1st if a new parcel tax isn't approved in the november election. >> school board officials in alameda are allowing the community a chance to give opinions about a chance to close and consolidate nine schools over the next two years. the alameda unified school district is considering a consolidation proposal to create megaschools

off quickly and it certainly is not widespread as we toured head towards afternoon bringing us warm temperatures in fact warmer than we have seen for the week. things change towards the ekend rain drops in sight. current temperatures this morning warming up in oakland and hayward and to the 60 school up in the north bay staying in the mid-50s down into the south bay to the afternoon keeping '80s and the pictures through santa rosa napa 733 novato 724 richmond down to the south bay temperatures in the '80s in places like los gatos and morgan hill today low '70s through oakland and hayward by the weekend things changed by friday storm system getting close dipping down to the south bringing rain drops by saturday again being the best bet for the north bay as we head through the day saturday and into sunday would bring the chance of rain moving southward along the peninsula even down to san jose mountain view bringing rain drops into the picture on sunday for both days saturday and sunday keeping chance of rain for most locations. temperatures dropping off increasing cloud covers wall b

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dropping in from the north of us by early saturday we up through the north bay, this will continue into the evening as we had early sunday to see how that system drops down bringing some showers, then starting to bring some shards .v2?dr c c,gv)+pvzsé÷hz46>r4senf  ty officials those costs do not include the cost of fire and rescue efforts. 3700 destroyedoy others suffered damage pg&e has pledged $100 million to help residents in the city. some residents were allowed to return to the sides were their homes once served. kron4 has more. many were hoping to recover at least something from what is left. >> about 14 people returned to his neighbor heard where their homes once stood yesterday they tried to collect things that were not lost. take a look, this is a girl i ever knew you can see how badly damaged bonds were placed on the they will continue to escort residence to this neighborhood through sundays so if you did lose your on you will still be allowed to come here and try and sal

for it. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. a fourth spare the air day and officials asking us to conserve today, all because of a forecast that will sizzle near the triple digit mark. >> i think we'll see record highs and feel record high temperatures once again today but what i want to start off with is talking about how poor the air quality could be in the east bay and also towards the south bay, particularly the east bay valleys and the santa clara valley. that's where we'll have unhealth amounts of ozone for those most susceptible, the elderly and those with respiratory problems. santa rosa, fairfield, concord and around the bay, low 90s oakland to upper 90s around palo alto. we'll also have extreme heat around the monterey bay, especially as you head inland towards morgan hill, gilroy and hollister. but still 98 watsonville. should be the last one. >> all right, mike. we'll check in for more information in a few minutes. this morning oakland police are searching for a gunman that opened fire on a home wounding a six-year-old girl. theresa garcia is live at the scene in oa

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